Global

June 11, 2022 @ 5:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  Silicon Valley Bank, the financial partner of the innovation economy, has provided a $22.5 million debt financing package to Keepit in partnership with Vaekstfonden. The funds should help with supporting further global expansion, hiring, and product development as it continues to scale operations and… Read More

June 11, 2022 @ 5:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

  loveelectric.cars has received over £1 million in seed funding along with a Scottish EDGE prize. The Edinburgh-based Fintech provides low cost leased electric company cars. The cost of leasing through loveelectric.cars is said to be around 50% less than if the car were leased… Read More

June 11, 2022 @ 4:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

creditshelf, an online lender providing access to capital for SMEs in Germany, has boosted its forward guidance slightly. Last quarter, creditshelf reported a 10% increase in lending volume and revenue growth of 43% or € 2,366,000 in the first quarter of 2022 vs the prior-year… Read More

June 11, 2022 @ 1:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cashplus Bank, the Fintech bank for UK-based small businesses, recently revealed that it has become the first UK bank to introduce a Mastercard-powered Digital Health Check tool for SMEs. The Digital Health Check, which will reportedly be available to the public for free, offers a… Read More

June 10, 2022 @ 8:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

YAS MicroInsurance (YAS) and Amodo have partnered to deliver insurance on-chain, according to a company statement. YAS is an Asia-Pacific Insurtech that is combining blockchain technology and insurance. Amodo is a telematics company providing on-demand insurance that is hyper-localized and usage-based insurance. The two firms… Read More

June 10, 2022 @ 5:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Payment orchestration provider BR-DGE has teamed up with Fintech firm Trust Payments in order to offer its merchants access to Trust Payments’ suite of Converged Commerce offerings. The partnership should allow BR-DGE clients to access Trust Payments’ tech, which includes a comprehensive payments platform, risk… Read More

June 10, 2022 @ 3:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Serai, an HSBC-founded venture based in Hong Kong that offered a B2B supply-chain platform, has shut down. The move was foreshadowed in an executive change last month when Vivek Ramachandran, formerly CEO of Seria, was appointed as Head of Global Trade and Receivables Finance (GTRF)… Read More

June 10, 2022 @ 2:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Instant payments are at “the top” of P27’s agenda. And more than a dozen banks connected to Swedish instant payments solution Swish are “set to test the Nordic payments platform by the end of the year.” Customer Relations Director Jacob Groth said: “We’re doing everything… Read More

June 10, 2022 @ 11:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On the margins of the Ninth Summit of the Americas, DFC and Mastercard (NYSE: MA) announced the first joint program in response to the Call to Action for Northern Central America the Vice President launched in May 2021. The Call to Action is designed “to… Read More

June 10, 2022 @ 10:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

HSBC recently revealed that it is offering the Oxford Fintech Program to staff, “in first partnership of its kind between the University and the banking sector.” One of Europe’s biggest banks, HSBC, is joining forces with Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, “to help train… Read More

June 10, 2022 @ 9:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Backbase, creator of the “category-leading” Engagement Banking Platform, raised €120 million in growth equity funding from Motive Partners. Having grown organically to over €200 million in revenue, Backbase is now partnering “with a Fintech specialist private equity firm, to further strengthen its claim on the… Read More

June 10, 2022 @ 9:33 am By JD Alois  |  

  Proportunity, a mortgage enabler for home buyers, is planning to raise growth capital on Seedrs. Proportunity is an interesting financing platform as it provides part of the capital needed to purchase a home. As prices rise along with inflation, Proportunity can provide an alternative… Read More

June 10, 2022 @ 8:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube, one of the largest investment crowdfunding platforms in Europe, has shared some insight into May’s platform performance. In a Tweet, Crowdcube reported that 27,265 investors committed over £28 million during the month. Moneybox topped the list of investments garnering 15,461 investors contributing almost £6.4… Read More

June 10, 2022 @ 7:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LiquidX, the global fintech platform for digitization, monetization, and risk mitigation for working capital, trade finance, and insurance assets, announced a strategic investment from Citi (NYSE: C), one of the largest trade finance banks. The funding round was “led by Broadridge, LiquidX’s largest strategic investor.”… Read More

June 10, 2022 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Swedish firm Juni, a neobank focused on digital commerce entrepreneurs, has finalized a $206 million Series B and venture debt funding. The $100 million Series B investment round has been led by Mubadala Capital, whose international Fintech initiatives reportedly include investments in SpotOn, Brex, C2FO,… Read More

June 10, 2022 @ 7:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Satago, a provider of invoice financing and Lending as a Service software solutions, has signed a LOI “to enter into a three-way partnership with Sage and Lloyds Bank.” The partnership will formalize plans “to create an embedded finance solution within Sage, the leader in accounting,… Read More

June 9, 2022 @ 3:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fraud and scams will always persist. While the game largely remains the same the methods will change and adapt as technology allows. The cat and mouse process continues with bad actors looking to part honest money from good people and evade immediate detection. Meanwhile, there… Read More

June 9, 2022 @ 2:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Compute North, a firm focused on sustainable, large-scale computing infrastructure, has announced the appointment of Satyen Yadav as Chief Technology Officer “to advance innovation in distributed computing services, including cloud computing for machine learning applications.” As covered, Compute North works with clients in the blockchain/DLT,… Read More

June 9, 2022 @ 11:54 am By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has posted a notice that the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has affirmed a district court order requiring compliance with investigative subpoenas served by the Commission on Terraform Labs Pte Ltd and Do Kwon – based… Read More

June 9, 2022 @ 11:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kroll, the provider of data, technology and insights related to risk, governance and growth, today released its 2022 Anti-Bribery and Corruption Benchmarking Report, which found that 70% of survey respondents in the U.S. and Canada “ranked their anti-bribery and corruption (ABC) programs as effective, with… Read More